ianGrasso, from Clarence, New York, who graduated from the University of Virginia in three years in 2023 as a double major in human biology and French, is currently pursuing a master’s degree in public health at UVA’s School of Medicine.
The University of Virginia faculty and students spent summer months researching, interning, studying and teaching in different parts of the world, an essential part of UVA experience that was on hold during the pandemic. Here are a few recollections:
JSPS will be visiting UVA to hold an info session to discuss their exchange programs (Fellowship and Bilateral Program) to researchers and others who are considering studying abroad in Japan.
Undergraduates who are interested in participating in the 3-credit J-term during the first two weeks of January are invited to the information session!
Undergraduates who are interested in participating in the 3-credit J-term during the first two weeks of January, are invited to the information session!
When an injury paused Mir McLean's basketball workouts, she took the opportunity to pursue her studies in Morocco. In early June, McLean flew to Morocco, where she joined other students from UVA. The program, for which she received four credits, is based in Meknes, a city in northern Morocco.
Susan Curl graduated with a degree in Spanish Language and Culture in 2007. Today Curl is an experienced translation professional with operations and business development experience in the U.S., Spain, and the Middle East. Curl Translations has grown exponentially and handles more than 60 language combinations, specializes in 12 different sectors, and works with clients in 15 countries. She looks back to her experience in UVA in Valencia program that started it all.
Rudene Mercer Haynes is a Chambers-ranked securitization attorney and Executive Committee member of Hunton, Andrews, Kurth, a nationally recognized law firm in Northern Virginia. She recalls her experience in Valencia when she was a UVA student.
Fernando Operé teaches colonial and 19th century Latin American literature and Spanish and Latin American poetry in UVA’s Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department. As founder and director of UVA’s Valencia program, he looks back as the program celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Liz Wellbeloved is assistant director of UVA’s longest-running study abroad program. A first-generation student, she has helped thousands of students explore options in Valencia.
Gregory Perryman has been selected as a Fellow and will conduct a comparative study of social justice leadership in the United States, South Africa and Ireland.
Join us for a panel discussion and reception with past UVA Fulbright recipients on February 23, at 5:00 pm in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium.
The U.S. Department of State has named the University of Virginia as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.
A record seventeen Education Abroad Programs took the University of Virginia students to places as distant and diverse as Argentina, Australia, Jordan, Kenya, and Vietnam, among other places for the first time since the pandemic disrupted travel in 2020.
Reese Hertel learned to appreciate nature while growing up in Charlottesville. Now, he seeks to bring his passion for the environmental global, interning in Guatemala and studying in Valencia to prepare himself for career as a Latin America-focused environmental engineer.
Two global studies students - Abeba Amenshowa, majoring in global development studies and foreign affairs and Leigh Mante, majoring in global public health and mathematical statistics have been awarded the Payne Fellowship and will pursue foreign service careers in USAID.
The East Asian Studies study abroad page contains information about programs in Chinese Language Studies and Japanese Studies, including UVA-in-Shanghai, as well as links to language study programs in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan.
The European Studies M.A. program has existing exchanges with schools in France, Sweden, Germany, and Northern Ireland and provides the option to arrange exchanges with other European sites.
Erica Stephens is getting ready to graduate next month with major in Cognitive Science and a minor in Health & Wellbeing from University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Science.
As we launch the 2021 spring semester this month amid continuing challenges from the COVID-19 threat, the contours of the post-pandemic world are emerging. Steadily accelerated vaccinations, improved compliance with public health measures, strides in treating the disease, and the resilience of our students and faculty in mastering new ways to learn and research are creating conditions to spring back even stronger after the pandemic.
UVA is in the top 12 U.S. universities for short-term study abroad programs, according to the annual Open Doors report released Nov. 16 by the Institute of International Education, a New York-based nonprofit.
Americans bid a sad farewell to legendary jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg in recent weeks, simultaneously celebrating her extraordinary contributions over 50 years to advancing gender equality and other important human rights issues in the United States. Justice Ginsburg’s life affirmed what all of us in international education have long known to be an essential truth: that study and research abroad transform and enrich individual lives, and more broadly, the character of nations.
This month as epidemiologists study the potential threat from the omicron variant, pandemic hospitalizations rise with the onset of winter, and travel requirements tighten again, Global Affairs is pleased to celebrate a small but important victory over COVID.
Despite losing spring and summer participation due to the pandemic, the University of Virginia remained among the top 25 doctoral-granting institutions in the number of its students who study abroad, according to the annual Open Doors report released Nov.
One of most serious impacts of COVID-19 on UVA’s mission last year was the sudden cancellation of every one of our study abroad programs. Between January and March of 2020, we scrambled to support the return of over 400 of our students, researchers, and faculty back to the United
